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Mindfulness Quotes
"Let your mind dance with me. Let it be, just for a moment, stress free."
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"Be control of your mind."
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"Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Desire is the greatest lsd possible " the ultimate in drugs.What is the nature of desire? When you desire, what happens? When you desire, you are creating an illusion in the mind; when you desire, you have already moved from here. Now you are not here, you are absent from here, because the mind is creating a dream. This absentness is your drunkenness. Be present!"
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"Feelings don't try to kill you,even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it."
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"Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else."
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"To take hold of your mind, you must practice mindfulness of the mind. You must know how to observe and recognize the presence of every feeling and thought which arises in you."
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"Don't waste all today worrying about the possible mistakes you may have made yesterday. You don't know what will happen tomorrow or how long we have here, so enjoy what you have today since you have it. May you be thankful for today and live it to the fullest as it truly is a gift."
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"Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial."
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"There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air."
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"Life is an act at a given moment."
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"Sex exists in the now without past or future. If, for a single second, your minds drifts back to the past or forwards into the unknown, the moment withers like a dead plant and the passage of pleasure turns to a road of dust."
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"Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!"
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"Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life."
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"Savor life authentically."
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"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet."
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"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen."
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"Do not imprison your mind with negative thoughts."
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"In choosing consciousness, we gift ourselves with presence."
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"The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one."
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"Appreciate every moment because this moment is your precious life."
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"When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence."
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"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches."
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"I listen to the silenceand yearn to be more me,swimming in the sea of myself,learning eternally -finding out where the rocks areand smoothing them into sand."
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"How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?"
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"The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets."
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"The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love."
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"Busyness chokes deep thinking."
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"Either you 'are' in your mind, or you are where you are. Fully present."
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"There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad."
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"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
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"Consider how the sky is unharmed by the clouds that pass through it, whether they are light and fluffy-looking or dark and formidable. A mountain is not moved by the winds blowing over it, whether gentle or fierce. The ocean is not destroyed by the waves moving on its surface, whether high or low. In just that way, no matter what we experience, some aspect of ourselves remains unharmed. This is the innate happiness of awareness."
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"It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud."
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"Just be, right now, here; & breathe. Stop questioning every little thing, stop analysing how it should be and let go of the control, you hold so tightly onto; and beging to trust the magic of yourself."
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"I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments."
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"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."
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"In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect."
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"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."
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"If you're in bad mood, take a deep breath.If you're in good mood, give thanks to God."
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"Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under!"
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"Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love."
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"Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment."
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"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
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"It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself."
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"We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry."
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"Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete."
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"Mindfulness is the art of cosmic collaboration."
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"It's easier said than done but when you feel yourself out of balance within, stop in that present moment and catch your breathe. Remind yourself of 5 things, that help you feel most alive and re-centre your own energy frequency so you can continue living out of your intentions not the world's distractions."
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"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."
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